Nearly done

Below: New subframe with the new seat, while it was being cut down from a "gunfighter" style seat and before it was re-covered.

Below: During re-assembly after changes. Here, the subframe is installed, final drive and swing-arm and shocks are installed, and it's ready to have the intakes re-installed. While the bike looks relatively complete, many parts had yet to be tightened, checked, and some cotter-pins and anti-rattle clips had yet to be installed. These images were taken just before the rear muffler was welded on to the new rear exhaust pipe and before the front muffler was mounted to the header.

(The mufflers are Old HD stainless mufflers. The rear stock header has an extension made from pipe from a Geo Metro exhaust and was  re-worked to fit this application.)

Notes: In the background you can see my XV700. It doesn't look too bad for being totaled in '03, but I realized the frame was simply too damaged to rebuild it.

Below: The cut- down stock XV750 swing-arm, and shock mounts on new sub-frame. Ebay shocks, from an XS650. Solo seat made from reworking a saddle. The fender is unknown , but may have been the front fender from a CB900. It's cut short and mounted under the seat with brackets welded to the inside of the new subframe. The single left mirror is (for now) the stock XV mirror, but bent to work with the drag-bars. Hopefully soon to be replaced with custom stalks and new smaller mirrors.

(In the back-ground, my late '85 Nissan pick-up. The bike in the bed is a '75 CB360 that I gave to a friend.) 

You can also see how well the "Shadowman Bars" look on this project. They have yet to be wired up, but that will be done when I tear the bike apart again for paint. Images of the pike lights and indicator lights lit at evening and at night will be up on these pages soon after that. - note: Temporarily, I have removed the bars until I can locate a better master cylinder and levers to use on them.)

The tail light / license plate side-mount was made using an old piece of angle iron. The light is the original cat eye light that came on the "Billski". The J.C. Whitney signal lights are mounted at the top of the shocks with some flat steel brackets.

Notes: The lines are right and I'm pretty happy with her so far.

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